What are the pretrained-language-model that is obviously better than BERT and RoBERTa?

19 January 2021 602 2 View

Can I design an aptamer that can sense microbial activity?

I am trying to design a boron nitride based biosensor that can sense the abnormality of microbial activities on fish skin. I am very curious that is it possible to have such an aptamer that can...

23 September 2020 6,352 4 View

Can I build a stable cell line for CO-IP?

I want to know two protein interactions via CO-IP, and one of the proteins has several different mutations. I need to transfect all these mutations into HEK293T cells for doing Co-IP every time,...

03 September 2020 342 3 View

Based on transformer, how to improve the text generation results?

If I do not pretrain the text generation model like BART, how to improve the result based on transformer like tensor2tensor? What are the improvement ideas for transformer in text generation task?

18 August 2020 7,265 3 View

Are there any deep models that are better than BERT-CRF in NER task?

Named entity recognition (NER) is task that mark tags of the input text sequence. BERT-CRF is a good NER model. I want to find a better NER model. Or I want to improve the BERT-CRF model. What...

18 August 2020 7,070 2 View

What are the effects of gender of performer on animal?

I remember a paper studied the effects of gender of handler on animal (mouse?) showing that male handler has more negative effects on animal (for example, causing animal anxious) compared to...

05 August 2020 4,131 1 View

Question of pretraining text-generation task, it seems that pretraining is not work for a small model?

My task is to generate keywords from sentences. I pretrain a text-generation model. I mask the sentences' tokens and predict the whole sentences' tokens. Pretraining batch_size = 8 and step =...

28 July 2020 5,675 1 View

How to tackle endogenous problems with "truncated" data structure?

When I want to estimate educational return, I run a regression like: ln(wage)=beta1+beta2*education+other control variables+u In order to tackle the endogenous problems induced by potential...

21 June 2020 2,244 1 View

What is the principle of Unsupervised Data Augmentation (UDA)? Why does UDA work?

UDA(https://github.com/google-research/uda) could achieve good accuracy by only 20 training data on text classification. But I find it is hard to reproduce the result on my own dataset. So I...

05 June 2020 1,486 2 View

What are the simplest methods for the label noise problem?

If I have enough low quality data from unsupervised methods or rule-based methods. Do you think removing the wrong data predicted by trained model is a simple but effective method?

02 June 2020 4,078 3 View

What solvent can I used for Paal Knorr reaction between 6-amino hexanoic acid and 2.5 hexanedione?

I am try to make the Paal Knorr reaction between 2.5 hexnedione and 6-amino hexanoic acid, my problem is type of solvent to use, because 6-hexaminohexanoic acid is soluble in water but I am not...

02 March 2021 4,443 2 View

Is CD44 degraded in lysosome together with hyaluronan after CD44 mediated endocytosis of hyaluronic acid?

Also when RHAMM binds hyaluronic acid, they get internalized, will RHAMM also be degraded? Or both CD44 and RHAMM will be transferred back to the cell membrane? Asking for breast cancer cell line...

01 March 2021 8,169 2 View

I want to performe MALDI-TOF MS for bacterial identification, I would appreciate it if anyone can tell me the matrix solution preparation protocol ?

based on what I've studied on multiple papers, for peptide and protein identification Alpha-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid (CHCA) is an appropriate matrix to use, I also know that the CHCA powder...

26 February 2021 6,799 3 View

How to model Supercritical water gasification (SCWG) process in Homer software?

Hi everyone How to model Supercritical water gasification (SCWG) process in Homer software?

25 February 2021 4,075 1 View

Can I use acetic acid with an ELITE WAX Perkin Elmer column for Gas Chromatography?

Hi! I would want to know if I can use acetic acid with an ELITE WAX Perkin Elmer column for Gas Chromatography. This column has a polyethylene glycol phase, but I can't find the manual to check...

22 February 2021 730 2 View

Can you perform the Murexide test on samples fixed in Formalin?

I have a fixed sample and would like to use the murexide reaction to test for uric acid composition. I no longer have fresh samples

22 February 2021 1,328 1 View

What is the best method to evaluate and measure non-circulating estrogen levels in mice ?

Could anyone suggest me the best procedure to measure the circulating estrogen levels in mice ? I came across the general methods where it can be measured in serum or urine but a detail suggestion...

22 February 2021 4,352 2 View

Is there an ideal incubation time of RGO-modified SPCE before subsequent use, i.e., electrochemical characterization or further modification?

I notice that upon washing and air-drying of my RGO/SPCE surface and characterizing again via DPV, the current response towards ferricyanide probe significantly decreases. My worry is that the...

22 February 2021 5,324 3 View

What is the best etching method for Mg-Ca alloy?

I have used Picral etchant (4.2 g Picric acid, 10 mL Acetic acid, 70 mL Ethanol, 10 mL distilled water) but it didn't work. Is there any alternative?

21 February 2021 2,558 5 View

Protocol for membrane extraction E. coli?

Hello! I am interested in determining whether a poly-unsaturated fatty acid I have engineered E. coli to produce is being incorporated into the membrane of the cells or if it is simply a free...

21 February 2021 7,447 2 View